Homeopathic Materia Medica

BAPTISIA

(bapt)

(Wild Indigo)
The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, SEPTIC CONDITIONS of the blood, malarial poisoning, and extreme prostration. Indescribable sick feeling. GREAT MUSCULAR SORENESS AND PUTRID PHENOMENA ALWAYS ARE PRESENT All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxaemias of children with fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac. typhosus, viz., the agglutinins. (MELLON.) Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum. Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.

Abdomen
Right side markedly affected. Distended and rumbling. Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhoea. Stools very OFFENSIVE, THIN, DARK, BLOODY. Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver. Dysentery of old people.

Respiratory
Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and SENSE OF SUFFOCATION. Constriction of chest.
Back and Extremities.
Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around bips and legs. SORE AND BRUISED. Decubitus.